YAN Han's weibo reply to a fan (2/27/2013 8:56am local time): 我短期没比赛 or I have no competitions in the immediate future. Combined with other recent posts showing disappointment... Still don't know but maybe his chances got very slim

Was really disappointed when I saw his name deleted from the JW entries. I wonder what the Chinese Fed's thinking. They could've just sent him to JW if they only intend to list him as an alternate for SW, just like what USFSA's doing with Joshua Farris. Unless they're still making the final decision wrt their entrant for SW, but it would be unfair to just dump Nan Song who recently won the Chinese Champs in favour of Yan (and I personally like Jeff's work with Nan's SP and would like to see more of it). And Yan doesn't seem to be suffering from his previous shoulder injury either. :[